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Edmond[1] (or Edmund[2]) Halley, FRS (/'hæli/;[3][4] 8 November [O.S. 29 October] 1656 - 25 January 1742 [O.S. 14 January 1741]) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720
